Charter schools call Kasich school funding insufficient
“The per pupil amount for Ohio’s charter schools is currently not enough, and we are concerned that HB 59 will make things even more difficult by reducing funding for many public charter schools and widening the gap. … Schools that will be particularly devastated by the proposed change include e-schools and some of the highest performing charters—schools that attract students from many different districts. Many charters are helping blur district lines by enrolling a cross-section of students, and we don’t want to penalize our charters who serve students from different districts. That, unfortunately, is what we fear this proposal does. Consider the effect of the proposed changes on Columbus Preparatory Academy (CPA), one of the highest scoring schools in the state with a Performance Index of 111.1. Our simulation estimates that CPA is likely to lose at least $100,000 in funding, even after factoring in funds intended to support enhanced Early Childhood and Gifted services and to address facility inequities. … Governor Kasich has repeatedly emphasized that no district will receive less under his budget proposal. We think it is only fair and equitable that public charter schools do not receive less per pupil than what they currently receive.”Klupinski’s testimony mirrored that of other Charter School advocates. Charters don’t like the $5,000 per pupil foundation amount, nor do they like that they’re not going to be getting any guarantees that their funding won’t drop from the previous year. This is not unlike what traditional public schools have been saying throughout this process. Perhaps we may soon see Charters and traditional public schools come together around a common set of principles for improvement on the funding proposal.
Kasich advisers can’t explain cuts to poor school districts
“Barbara Mattei-Smith told the Dispatch Friday that since 2009 in rural areas “land values are increasing and taxation has updated agricultural values on property.” She also said that many suburban districts that would receive more money under Kasich’s plan have seen substantial increases in enrollment, which affects their funding under the new plan.” — Athens Messenger, Feb. 10, 2013
“Kasich education policy advisor Barbara Mattei-Smith said that’s because school districts that many people think of as “poor” are not actually poor for the purposes of determining state funding under the Kasich plan. In recent years, property values in rural Ohio rose while property values in cities and suburbs fell. And, at the same time, rural and urban districts lost students, while suburban districts grew, Mattei-Smith said.” — State Impact News Feb. 6, 2013However, neither of these explanations actually pan out. One need look no further than Northern Local in rural Perry County — the district, ironically, where the DeRolph school funding lawsuit originated. [Read more…]
[Video] Butland explains IO charter schools report on Columbus on the Record
Report: Unfair Funding – How Charter Schools Win & Traditional Schools Lose
Research Overview
Innovation Ohio has analyzed data from the Ohio Department of Education that demonstrates that the way charter schools are funded in this state has a profoundly negative impact on the resources that remain for the 1.6 million kids in Ohio’s traditional public schools. In the vast majority of cases — even in many urban school districts — the state is transferring money to charter schools that perform substantially worse than the public schools from which the students supposedly “escaped.” Key Findings:- Because of the $774 million deducted from traditional public schools in FY 2012 to fund charters, children in traditional public schools received, on average, $235 (or 6.5%) less state aid than the state itself said they needed.
- More than 90% of the money sent to rated charter schools in the 2011-2012 school year went to charters that on average score significantly lower on the Performance Index Score than the public schools students had left.
- Over 40% of state funding for charters in 2011-2012 ($326 million) was transferred from traditional public districts that performed better on both the State Report Card and Performance Index. [Read more…]
News Release: Charter Schools Cost State Twice as Much per Student as Traditional Schools
IO: Charter Schools Cost State Twice as Much per Student as Traditional Schools
Report Finds “Deduction” System Overpays Charters, Shortchanges Traditional Students; Says Majority of Charter Money Goes to Poorer Performing Schools
Columbus — Innovation Ohio, a progressive think tank headquartered in Columbus, released a new report today which finds that charter schools not only cost the state twice as much money per student as traditional schools, but that the “deduction system” currently used to fund them “has a profoundly negative impact on the 90% of Ohio children who remain in traditional public schools.” The study also found that most of the state money transferred to charters went to schools with worse student performance scores than the school districts from which the money and students came.
Specific findings of the study include:- In FY 2012, charter schools received $7,141 per pupil in state money — more than twice the $3,399 traditional public schools received from the state after charter deductions;
- Charter school funding is based on the cost of educating kids in a traditional school, despite the fact that charters have far lower actual costs. Charters pay teachers less, have no student transportation expenses, and are exempt from some 270 legal and regulatory requirements with which traditional schools must comply.
- The resulting overpayment to charters comes at the expense of traditional school students. In FY 2012, for example, the $774 million transferred to charters gave traditional school children, on average, 6.5% less funding than the state said they needed.
- Although proponents of “school choice” often cast charter schools as superior to traditional schools, 85% of those who transferred in the 2011-12 school year left districts with better state performance results than the charters to which they went. [Read more…]
Failure for Half of New Money School Levies This Week
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Kasich School Funding Plan Falls Short for Property Poor Districts
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Who is really served by latest Kasich budget?
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